SOFTIMAGE|3D Overview

"The fact is Softimage has always been on the cutting edge and they're always interested in staying on the cutting edge"
Doug Cooper, Dreamworks, SKG

Demonstrated Excellence, Relentless Innovation

Set yourself Apart

By living up to this reputation, Softimage|3D has helped studios around the world live up to theirs. Softimage 3D has defined and driven much of the innovation in 3D animation - from interface design that put animation back into the hands of artists, to breakthrough character animation and the rendering power of mental ray ^TM. Constantly pushing the leading edge, refining existing tools and providing powerful customization avenues - within the product and through the Softimage SDK - Softimage 3D has helped the best production houses in the world push the creative envelope and set themselves apart.

How Reputations are Made

If you're involved in professional computer animation, you know the reputation Softimage 3D has. That there's a comfortable rhythm to working within its efficient interface, that everything is where an animator would expect it to be and the tool fades into the background. There's incredible freedom to pick and choose, combine and contort the most expansive, powerful, refined collection of animation tools on the planet - complex characters, natural motion, beautifully rendered images, signature effects, become totally believable or totally unbelievable scenes.

Softimage 3D takes advantage of the best the hardware industry offers, continually delivering maximum performance and the freedom to choose the best delivery platform (or combination of platforms) for a job or work environment. Today that means enhanced support for SGI O2 and Octane workstations Windows NT^® version 4.0. And whatever the effect, whatever the timeline, whatever the level of quality a team needs to achieve, Softimage 3D comes through in production when everything is on the line.

To render a singing baby, Softimage 3D was used to model the baby's face from a cyber scan. Then, working with video reference, an animation was created and synchronized to the voice track. After mapping the modeled mouth onto the original image, it was merged with the original shot to emulate perfectly natural movement.

New in 3.7

3D Paint
Paint Directly on 3D mesh objects with fully interactive tool.

NURBS
Surface Blending Create seamless surfaces and interactively update while animating.

Texture Pre-Lighting
Add realistic illumination to texture maps for real-time environments.

Showicon
See wireframe, points and lights in full shaded and textured view.

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